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Me=New York City

Utah. The latest tornado missed me by 120 miles, but the big one went right by my office.

Summit, NJ, by way of Philly, New Brunswick NJ, Asbury Park NJ (yes, where Springsteen is from), and Detroit.

Summit NJ, by way of Phillthy, New Brunswick NJ, Asbury Park NJ (yes, Springsteen), and Detroit.

damn! it wasn't there when I refreshed after the 500 error! argh!

Dallas, by way of Tulsa, Waco, and, uh, Tulsa again.

Rome, Italy, by way of nomadic wanderings through Europe
by way of Austin, Tx.
by way of Dallas, Tx.
by way of Peoria, Il.

you didn't ask, but:

New York by way of Boston, Venezuela, Argentina, England, Maryland, Connecticut, Utah, Alaska.

oh, and Adam, on the double post thing. Post it, when you get the error, pretend like you're going to post another comment (just write "um" or something), then hit preview and check the bottom of the page. Your first comment should show up, then you can just press the back button and go to the front page or wherever. This avoids double posts.

I live here...

Fayetteville, NC. Where Fort Bragg is.

wow, you are some well-travelled folk. i lived in chicago and then cleveland before detroit. i know that isn't saying much! one midwest city to the next, then the east coast!

I live in Costa Mesa, California but I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Though it is a true fact that I often tell people I am from Madagascar.

*rest of comment judged to have been to good for 9622...posted to my blog*

where is that, dj scribbles?

Dude, I was just about to say that I first heard of Madagascar from playing Risk, then read your blog. Wierd.

Risk has formed many of our lives in meaningful ways. Even now, I have secret plans for massing an army in Kamchatka.

Lemurs are from Madagascar.

I've lived in and around Nashville all my stinking life.

It's hot here.

Have you ever been to Sun Studios in Memphis, Brittney? And isn't Dollywood round those parts?

New York City, by way of Rio de Janeiro and London. I think I may have spent some years in a Berlin nightclub, too.

the kit kat club, perchance?

Austin, TX, by way of Albuquerque, Seattle, and Xanadu--oo--oo.

it's Vancouver, BC, adampsyche - yep, I'm just another Canadian to blame things on :)

Prior to this I lived here:

Lemur sights and sounds. The Indri lemur chorus is a chart-topper.

Cool! I always wanted to visit, but since I am a Red Wings fan, I don't want to get accosted for the Wings' defeat of the Cancucks in the first round last year. No hard feelings, eh?

500! gah!

Better link to that lemur page.

I think that lemur page is an ideal MeFi post.

Then we can all chime in and say how it is so last week.

The full length of Indri lemur chorus is a thing to hear but you might like make a coffee while you wait.

9622: a thing to hear but you might like make a coffee while you wait

I live in Butt-Fuk-Egypt, oh where not how I feel. Dallas, Tx. by way Buena Park,CA. by way Houston,Tx by way Long Beach, California,by way my mommy's tummy(had to her b-day today).

Sun Studios, no. I totally should. But that is in Memphis, 3 hours away and Dollywood is on the other end of the long state. Near Knoxville.

I would never, ever go to Dollywood. No way.

Nearly all that Nashville boasts is the Grand Ole Opry and the highest ratio of people who have mullets and know that they do.
Willfully awful haircuts.

Hey I think we may have found our next charity

I live here. The railroad tracks are now elevated, and my house is just beyond them and to the left. It was built in 1870. Seems like I moved in shortly after that ... and haven't moved around much since.

You must have been to the Grand Ole Opry though, right? Just to see the place where Johnny kicked out the footlights... *sigh*

Kaf--I was in Costa Mesa a couple of weeks ago (for a funeral, unfortunately, not for pleasure). Did you sense a disturbance in the force?

sf, ca. but you knew that, right? because i'm always harping on about how awesome the weather is here. do you want to know how weather is right now? it's fuckin' awesome.

and, contrary to popular belief (well, mine) we've got beaches, too, usable ones, even, sometimes, in summer -- like yesterday, when i went to the beach (me! imagine! on a beach! -- i thought not either!) I was going to read a bit of SEXUS (which I picked up, in complete with, uh, NEXUS, for $1.22 -- total, aftertax -- plus some cheesy slash fiction novel with a cool cover at Moe's) on the little beach hidden behind the Cliff House cliffs -- you know, by the Sutro Bath ruins? (I was right next to that rock thing -- seal rock, i think they call it -- i call it big mount guano -- or candy mountain, for short).

anyhow, I *was* going to read a bit of SEXUS but these punk rock kids came and started playing frisbee on the beach (which is really small) and there was all these tourists staring through those little quarter telescopes (which, of course, would be a good name for a band, if we didn't already have the telescopes) and well, even though, only 50 pages in, i'm convinced that mr. miller perhaps singlehandedly (i would go so far as to say superhandedly, but that wouldn't make any sense) created a new and wonderous (and now my favorite) erotica genre ("writerboy porn" -- you know, where there's a writer, and he thinks he's a big debaucherous failure, but actually he's semi-ok, and everyone gives him money to ensure he's always intoxicated on one thing or the other, so he's got all sorts of free drive to drive off to the country and and and and for no explicable reason girls find him irresistable and in the most graphic manner. and you know he could get away with sentence fragments, if he wanted to.), even though that, well, i think that, i don't know, people would think it kinda weird for someone to be sitting alone on a tiny little beach reading henry miller. i mean, maybe if it was anais nin, it'd be ok, but, henry fucking miller?

anyhow, so i didn't, and it was still a fantastically pleasant day.

and the weather?

fuckin' awesome.

anyhow, i stamp this thread with the incalculable stink of my pretend sunday miniblog.

oh, and that's by way of oakland/berkeley and sacramento.

Forces were disturbed.

jonmc=Bridgeport, Connecticut. Scenic, hah?

jonmc=Bridgeport, Connecticut. Scenic, hah?

FF at the beach reading porn? I bet the fish were nervous.

Look, Kaf. No one under the age of 50 goes to the Grand Ole Opry to see a performance. It just isn't done. This goes triple-fold if you are a Nashville native.

I have seen Tori Amos and Ray Charles on that stage though.

Oh yeah? Oh YEAH?

um. OK.

I have seen Tori Amos and Ray Charles on that stage though.

Together?

I'm from outside of Boston. Actually, I'm outside Lowell MA, the birthplace of Jack Kerouac. The locals think Kerouac was a hippie.

And jeez, britt. I've been to Sun Studios, and it's a much longer drive for me.

The best part of going to Sun Studios is that you can then say "I've been to Sun Studios". There's really not much to see. Helluva gift shop, though.

I love that part of Mystery Train with the Japanese couple touring Sun Studios.

And, technically, Lupo, I can still say "I've been to Sun Studios". It would just be a lie.

Can you tell I'm not working much today?

kaf:

Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) by Flock of Seagulls

Gee thanks, witchy. Now I have 2 songs stuck in my head.

I had a parentheses song on my mix: Big Chief, One Born Every Minute (Doc's Theme).

what's the first song?

I find it endlessly amusing that Nashville is considered "the Athens of the South."

but Athens is in the south!

Baton Rouge then Austin, TX (we'll call that my salad days) and now back to muggy, stinky, Serial Killer, Anthrax professor, West Nile Virus Baton Rouge, to marry the girl I love.

It's nice to be home.

I take comfort in the fact that New Orleans is near.

I have seen Tori Amos and Ray Charles on that stage though.

Maybe. But Brother Ray sure as heck didn't see you.

Heh, sorry. The first song was "If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?" by Mental As Anything.

But I think I've been cured by the Dirty Three.

When in Memphis, don't miss the Arcade restaurant - the city's oldest - where Elvis munched cheeseburgers and Jarmusch shot Mystery Train (opposite the hotel).

Mystery Train is one of my all-time favorites. I think it's a double feature tonight Chez Poulos: The Big Lebowski followed by Mystery Train.

Who wants to join me?

I had already planned to rent Lebowski tonight, not having seen it since it was first in theatres. I love Mystery Train. You're on.

I am:

Montreal QC
by way of Ottawa ON
by way of Toronto ON
by way of Stirling, Scotland.

Also: I can't help it.

QC and ON? Which states are THOSE?

I am Lisbon through and through, born here, live here, will die here and would every day rather be anywhere else but nowhere else for more than a day.

Monkey Cow Hampshire, by way of a million places beginning with Monkey Cow Hampshire.

This is very trippy - I go offline this afternoon to watch a movie, and return to find that you're all discussing the very film (Mystery Train) I *just* saw less than an hour ago...

9622 has officially permeated every plane of my existence.

I'm in Portland, OR. West Coasters do seem to be in the minority here. I hail from Boulder, CO, moved to Seattle, moved back to Boulder, moved briefly to N.O., LA, moved back to Boulder, moved to Seattle, moved to Olympia, WA, and am now here. My twenties were filled with confused, baseless drifting. Much like my thirties, but I'm more stationary in my drifting--now I stay close to Portland but drift from job to job (or job to no-job, like now).

I did live in the West Bank for two months. Very informative.

Posted by: readymade on September 9, 2002 09:02 PM

Seoul, South Korea, natch. Before this I spent 2 1/2 years in Sydney, Oz, three years in Korea (with 8 months working in Cancun in the middle), a year sailing the Pacific coast of Mexico before that, Australia for a year and NZ for a year before that with some associated wandering about in South East Asia, Europe and the UK for a couple of years before that....

I've been on the road for about 12 years now. Me heap big expat.

I'm a Canadian though, and grew up in a very small village in Northern BC called Fort Saint James, in the deep forests about 100 kms from which my folks still live.

I've been hesitant to ask, but what does natch mean?

I like the word, but haven't a clue how to use it, natch.

(Was that right?)

I can show you where I've lived on two Mapquest maps (and not very "zoomed out" ones, either).

I've lived in the following cities in my life:

- Taylor, Michigan
- Livonia, Michigan
- East Lansing, Michigan
- Southfield, Michigan
- Farmington Hills, Michigan

As you can see here and here, I seem not to have traveled very far in 32 years.

"I can't believe you shot me and you're not even my fucking brother-in-law"

(sorry to be so quote-y today. y'all keep activating my mental database of utterly useless knowledge.)

oh, and "natch" = "naturally"

Naturally?

Oh.

That isn't as cool as I'd hoped.

Franklin, Massachusetts is halfway between Boston and Providence and half as cool as either. We have no beach, no mountains, precious little farm land and absolutely no tourist attractions (unless you count the birthplace of Horace Mann - which is prominently marked in the parking lot of one of the two shopping centers). It's easy to get out of, though, which is a blessing.

I'm more southern by nature, anyway - Oklahoma born, and Texas eddicated (Dallas).

Um, that's it!

Washington DC to Arlington, Virginia to Connecticut, to another town in Connecticut to Florida to Rhode Island to back to Florida with pauses in Glasgow, Scotland.
I'm just festering to leave Florida again.

Also, I've been to Sun studios, and was sort of bummed out by it.
If you like something, don't make a museum out of it.
A legend shouldn't feel like an ersatz Hard Rock cafe.

hate to be the bearer of dull tidings.

St. Louis. Late of Chicago ca. 1986. Met a girl and got stuck, dontcha know. My office is four blocks west from the River, my home off to the east, Illinois side.

If you love something don't make a museum out of it.

*throws away skull of ex-girlfriend*

Good strip clubs in East St. Louis.

Umm, so I'm told.

I'm just festering to leave Florida again.

Smile when you say that, dongy.

Good strip clubs in East St. Louis.

Used to be; nowadays, try Sauget (safe) or Brooklyn (not so much).

at least, that's what I heard.

Me=a little town outside of Dallas...via Austin, via Florida, via the UK, Amersterdam and all the other civilized countries in Northern Europe who eventually made me leave when my visas expired. :)

Silly ColdChef, skulls are for bongs.

Well I broke down in E. St. Louis
On the Kansas City line
and I drunk up all my money
that I borrowed every time
and I fell down at the derby
and now the night's black as a crow
It was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
What made my dreams so hollow
was standing at the depot
with a steeple full of swallows
that could never ring the bell
and I come ten thousand miles away
with not one thing to show
well it was a train that took me away from here
but a train can't bring me home
I remember when I left
without bothering to pack
you know I up and left with
just the clothes I had on my back
now I'm sorry for what I've done
and I'm out here on my own
well it was a train that took me away from
here but a train can't bring me home

Dude, a lot of 9622 have passed through Dallas. Time to admit which suburb you lived in. I grew up in Plano, second only to Highland Park in snobbery and teenagers driving BMW's, of which I was not one.

Pardon me - I went to MSU for two years. Lived in S. Case Hall (James Madison) and waited tables at Beggar's Banquet. My most vivid memory is how cold the winter was - my earlobes would freeze solid walking from class to work!

Chicago.

...by way of Brooklyn, Seattle, Denver and Minneapolis, FWIW.

jpoulos: I'm a huge Jarmuch fan. Loved "Stranger Than Paradise". It made me avoid Cleveland.

Stranger Than Paradise is on my list of desert island dvd's, without a doubt.

"it's screaming jay hawkins, he's a wild man, so bug off."

me = New York City (born & raised)

Spent some time in Long Beach, CA and Hanover, NH and Tokyo, Japan too...

Did you ever see Dallas from a DC9 at night?
Well, Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight
And Dallas is a jungle, but Dallas gives a beautiful light
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC9 at night?

Well, Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down
But when you are up, she's the kind you like to take around
But Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground
And Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you're down

I came into Dallas with the bright lights on my mind
But I came into Dallas with a dollar and a dime

Well, Dallas is a rich man with a deathwish in his eyes
A steel and concrete soul, and a warm-hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
Yeah, Dallas is a rich man with a deathwish in his eyes...

The Flatlanders feat. Jimmie Dale Gilmore (Smokey from The Big Lebowski)

London, me. Via the middle of fucking nowhere.

Romakitty - I'm sort of in between Rowlett and Rockwall. The area is starting to turn into the "new" Plano. Lots of mcmansions and whatnot. Used to be farm country...not so much now though. Pretty much yuppie scum now. Rumor has it, that I'm one of the yuppie scum...but it's just a ruse I tell you...a ruse.

Liam, if I can ever get my novel finished...which at the rate I'm going may take longer than Proust's epic...I'll have to send you the first chapter. It's a succubus in Dallas, I think you'd dig the imagery. (The novel is set in hell...and succubi are first line loan collectors, doncha know. Dallas just seemed so perfect. :)

Oooo, please do dejah. Last time I visited the family, I couldn't believe how big the 'burbs had gotten. And that was 2 years ago. Might be visiting again for the hols, but I haven't decided, as my wanderlust demands new places. Then again, my liver demands good tequila, too, and I'm going to Greece and Belgium for work at the end of this month, so Xmas plans are still a toss up...

St. Clair Shores, MI
Ann Arbor, MI
Ypsilanti, MI
Ann Arbor, MI (again)
Saline, MI
Eastpointe, MI

Bridgeport--->Fairfield-->NYC--->Bridgeport-->Miami-->Bridgeport--->NYC(?)

For the uninitiated, Bridgeport,CT is an armpit. But a charming one.

Call it a charmpit.

We are on an "orange alert" according to Tom Brokaw just now...anybody got a clue what that actually means?

I now return you to your local thread.

Well my alert level just went to brown, if ya catch mah drift..

we got an ypsi here!

i used to hang out at that coffee shop on mack avenue and 9 mile(?) called travis, i think.

yes, i was a little ruffian.

[i]We are on an "orange alert" according to Tom Brokaw just now...anybody got a clue what that actually means?[/i]

It means we are T minus 10 minutes from my mother calling me and asking if I've seen any terrorists and maybe I should consider coming 'home'.

Mothers. Ya gotta love 'em...

note to self: preview, you frickin' idjit.

heh, yeah 9 & mack is Travis, (right next to the Shores Inn). and about a mile and a half from my house down 9 mile)

I don't know if you could call it a coffee shop though, its more of a really disgustingly greasy diner, you can't get me to eat there on a dare anymore.(there used to be one not too far from there on Harper called rabbles that was a hangout of mine from 92-95 tho)

orange alert means we're not getting enough citrus.

hanve some Tang

It's the War on Red Bull and other imported sodas.

Are these code thingees doing anything besides make the population jittery?

Apparently Big Blue is down. Coincidence?

I think NOT.

bwahahahaha!

Niagara Falls (both sides of the border)--> to South Carolina --> New Orleans (briefly)--> then back to Columbia, SC. City motto: "Not a bad place, after all." (Better than "We're on fire!" the motto chosen, then rejected when those who care remembered that the city really was burned down in 1865.) Advantages: Big enough to have a surface veneer of culture, small enough to run into friends wherever you go. Disadvantages: It's South Carolina. You do the math.

Feh. Y'all are some well-traveled monkeys.

And for the record: no, I've never been to me.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Something like this?

Alert, alert it was an orange alert here in Dallas, yesterday. No joke, the air quality(right side below weather).

Here is my poo alert, *splat* it comes in brown.

Why is everything in Dallas double?

Orange Alert:air quality and US saftey.
Assinations: JFK & Oswald
Womans size: Double D
Snobs: Highland Park & Plano(pratically next door neighbors)
Hicks: Owns two teams & almost all the radio
Jerry Jones: NFL, Cowboys & Areana, Desperados(?)
Coke: pleasure and liquids

A little more like this, I think.

Little late to the party (again -- my client had other ideas about me playing online today).

Milwaukee born & bred, here. But I travel a lot, if that counts for anything. Can't argue with it here. It's cheap, there are jobs and it's friendly.

roma: So true about the mother thing. Mine has been carrying around like 5 gallons of water in the back of her car for a year. Um, mom, maybe not driving like a mad drunk will improve your chances of survival on this planet far more than terrorism prevention measures such as stock-piling water.
Very thankful I do not have a television these days.

Besides, the new issue of Vanity Fair just arrived.

I feel so much better now that I've said it. How liberating.

The new issue of Vanity Fair just arrived.

That does feel good. I swear I rip out the perfume samples though. I swear.

For what it's worth:
Danville, CA-->Antioch, CA-->Monterey, CA-->Sacramento, CA-->Oakland, CA-->Seattle, WA. If the trend continues, I will die at the North Pole.

anathema, i totally agree with you on the no-tv thing & stress-levels. I have a tv, but since I refuse to pay for cable, I have to squint through the static to see anything resembling a program. My tv is now just an extension of my VCR, and I get about 90% of my news from the web... I think it's kept me 'saner than the average bear' in these last few weeks of 9/11 retrospectives and Orange Alerts.

I think there are a few of us monkeys that are TV/cable-free, aren't there? I seem to recall some other comments to that effect in earlier threads... Like Stav, I get lots of tv-shows through file-sharing programs, but it's been a strange transition for me, since I am such a media/pop-culture junkie. I'm not sure I'm any safer from brain-rot, though; I just think the Intar-Web has replaced the Idiot Box as my "Flickering Pacifier"...

I'm in the same situation as scribblative. TV just as an extension of VCR. But my girlfriend has cable, so if there's something I have to see, then I'll have her either tape it for me or let me watch it.

If it was not for my free cabe, ATT&T installed and placed their equipment on my property, not the easement so I'm a wiener. But for tv usage payperview the best, and news my mouse is the remote. I feel the internet will mix in with the way we watch, and your cell phone which I don't have will be your remote to life.

Okay, work-avoidance drives me to share with my monkey brethren (and sistren). Born in Heidelberg, Germany -> Weisbaden, Germany -> San Diego, CA -> Spokane, WA -> Bellingham, WA -> Anchorage, AK -> Valdez, AK -> Seattle, WA

And now possibly contemplating a Boston-area relocation... Big contemplation. If you know of big web-type employers out that way, drop me a line, thanks.

Okay, work-avoidance drives me to share with my monkey brethren (and sistren). Born in Heidelberg, Germany -> Weisbaden, Germany -> San Diego, CA -> Spokane, WA -> Bellingham, WA -> Anchorage, AK -> Valdez, AK -> Seattle, WA

And now possibly contemplating a Boston-area relocation... Big contemplation. If you know of big web-type employers out that way, drop me a line, thanks.

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